Bug Squad

Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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UC ANR is renovating its website. The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/archive.cfm

Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College and a Bohart Museum of Entomology scientist, is shown here wearing her Bohart Museum rhinoceros beetle shirt at Kensington Palace. Keller taught science to community college students in London during the fall semester. She designed this beetle, which is available in the Bohart Museum gift shop.

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Beetles from Belize at the Bohart Museum Open House

January 19, 2023

Beetles from Belize at the Bohart! The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on beetles, set Sunday, Jan. 22, will include "Beetles in Belize.

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A birds-eye-view of a wintering agave. Can you spot the lady beetles, aka ladybugs? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Up, Close and Personal with Beetles

January 18, 2023

Seen any lady beetles, aka ladybugs, in your yard this year? Now that the sun's out and the worst California storms are over, check your yard for lady beetles. We saw several of them on our agave this morning.

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Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum's education and outreach coordinator, introduces a stick insect, aka walking stick, to Teddy Marlatte, 4, and his mother, Maddy Marlatte of Auburn. In the foreground is Teddy's sister Reagan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Birthday Visit to the Bohart

January 17, 2023

When you visit a traditional zoo, you might see lions, tigers and bears.

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A dipper of honey for your tea? Sweet! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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UC Davis Honey-Tasting Workshops Are the Place to 'Bee'

January 16, 2023

The late Jackie Gleason wasn't thinking about honey when he coined the catchphrase, "How Sweet It Is." But sometimes folks associate "sweet" with honey.

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Stingless bees in Costa Rica dining on chicken bait. (Photo by Quinn McFrederick of UC Riverside)

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Not All Bees Are Vegetarians: Some Eat Meat

January 13, 2023

For years we've been taught that wasps are carnivores while bees (which evolved from wasps), are vegetarians. Don't bees forage only for pollen and nectar (as well as water and propolis)? Not always so.

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